“Moved Out The Very Next Day”: 66 People Reveal Terrifying Childhood Memories Their Families Keep Under The Rug

I know the house I currently live in is haunted because when I’m here I have awful nightmares where I wake up over and over again, and I feel like I’m being watched by something with horrible intentions 24/7. When I go back to living at college it just stops entirely. My parents have also had terrible nightmares and things, but they refuse to believe anything about this house being haunted. Things also disappear and reappear randomly in the house. It happens a lot with my makeup. I’ll look all over the bathroom counter for an eyeliner or my lash glue and it will be nowhere. Then after looking in other rooms I’ll come back to find it sitting in the middle of the countertop, not covered by anything or hidden at all. My dreams are also super vivid here. I can use all 5 senses in my dreams.

My stepdad mom and I moved into a house in the country.I started having nightmares about a woman wearing a black and white striped dress with blonde hair . In these dreams she would try to hurt me . I only told my mom about it and she didn’t mention it to my stepdad . One evening my stepdads friend stayed the night on our couch . In the morning my stepdad and his friend and my mom were all chatting and the friend said he saw a woman in our kitchen . Described her dress and blonde hair. We lived there for about a year . In that time span I kept having nightmares about her . My mental health declined badly . It was really bad . We eventually moved and about 6 years ago - my mom got a call from the landlord of the house . She left a voicemail stating that her new tenant was “having strange issues like your daughter experienced” and wanted to ask my mom some questions. She didn’t want to call her back so she didn’t . Didn’t want to invite whatever is up there back into our lives . During that year we had neighbors across the forest that we shared . Our neighbor had lived in that area for about 20 plus years . He had a lot of experiences too . He would see a man walking out the forest carrying a baby. He would hear childrens laughter and the sound of running around his property . He had a huge Ash tree outside of his house and would see a woman sitting in it.

Have you ever heard a tree weeping? I do, my whole family heard it too. Happened during my teenage years, when my parent decide to buy & move to an old house that has not been occupied for a long time (yes, your typical cliche opening of horror movie). There's a mango tree in the backyard, it was large & shady. One night we heard a loud & long weeping sound coming from that tree, a very sad one. The very next day the tree fell down, the root were lifted by it self. It just fell.

We lived in a very old, very haunted cottage in a tiny rural village in England, we all knew and felt the unpleasant vibe but we rarely mentioned it, even though none of us would go in certain rooms alone.
One night I awoke suddenly and noticed a man stood near the end of my bed, I could see he was wearing all black but his face was illuminated and he was grinning at me.
He vanished when I started screaming.
I still dream about that house and wake up scared.

In the 80’s my cousin & I (probably 11/13) decided to have a seance while I was staying at her house for a summer visit. We lit candles & tried to be serious (not easy!) We couldn’t figure out who to contact so she picked her paternal grandmother who had passed away several years before. We asked her to give us a sign that she was with us - within a minute or two a doll flew off the shelf across the room. It was a doll her grandmother gave her. We were terrified & ended the seance immediately.

I was real little and started having sleepovers at my cousins house.
One night I was laying next to my cousin. She had already fell asleep and I couldn’t sleep. She had a basement bedroom so like the moonlight would shine in the dark room.
I’d just lay there looking around and I heard footsteps coming in so I covered my face with the blanket (it was pretty see through. Like a stringy knitted blanket) and only would I cover myself would I see an elderly couple standing over the foot side of the bed. I’d take it off they weren’t there, I’d cover myself and they were there. I got freaked out and didn’t wanna wake anyone so I had a sweaty and suffocating night sleeping under the blanket huddled close to my cousin.

When I was about 3, my sister was 5, we had a Barbie with purple hair and purple gem eyes. It got up and walked on its own - almost marching down our dresser. We screamed and told my mother’s boyfriend at the time. He picked it up and said - what this thing? And threw it in a paper heb bag. I asked my sister a few yrs ago if it was real or just my 3 yr old mind, and she confirmed it happened. We never played with that Barbie again. Now I have a haunted museum and I wish I had that doll.

When I was 4 my real father passed ( keep this in mind ) my father now & my mother moved to New York ( that’s where my father is from also active duty military) after my dad passed we move there and go on with our lives as we thought till random shit started happening ( my real dad died unexpectedly wrong place wrong time type situation) so when we’ll come home from doing whatever oddly enough anything that belong to me would be put back in its place ( if I left my toys out , clothes etc ) then my mom started noticing everytime she’ll leave the pot of grease left on the stove would be completely empty when we got back . My mom started questioning me about the things I told her idk . Fast forward my room was at the top of the steps couldn’t miss it every time I would use the bathroom by my room the light in the bathroom would literally be red not for anybody else just me I bought it to my mom she started to worry I didn’t automatically gts I just stared at my mom till i unexpectedly immediately dozed off im not sure how much time passed but i woke up from my sleep again hearing my mother crying & talking . The only thing I heard my mother say was “ Terrence ( my real dads name ) she is going to be fine but you have to move on “ i literally watched the figure stand up , look back at me and walked into my mother … after that no red lights , my toys stayed exactly where i left them & that was that. rip dad

When I was in 6th grade my school gave me an old computer. It was useless bc we were poor so no internet or really anything to do on the computer but I kept it and put my books on the keyboard. It was the kind that would clack clack when you typed. One night in the fall I was woken up to really loud cat meowing. It would not stop. As I tried to go back to sleep I hear “clack clack clack clack” I’m like wth is that my keyboard. The cat meowing got louder but it was weird our dog didn’t bark. And he barked for everything. Literally you sneeze he barked. We didn’t have cats so I was worried a cat got into our house but as soon as I got up to check the keyboard sound stopped and the cat meowing did too. I think the cat was trying to tell me something was in my room and scared it away.

Okay a friend sent me this I have many stories from growing up but my grandparents owned a funeral home in Ohio and the basement was the motutuary anyway I was 8 and we drove from Florida to stay the weekend and the upstairs bedroom had a knight of armor in the right hand corner of the room. Lights go out and I not only see it moving but hear the metal cranking as it walked towards my bed. I screamed and my mom comes running down the hall to turn on the light and it instantly was back exactly were it was but she asked me what was that loud metal noise and I pointed at the knight and told the story and we left in the morning. This isn't the scariest but my mom to this day won't discuss it for some reason.

My dad brought home a green recliner he got from a friend. I kept telling him something was wrong with that chair, but like a lot of parents, he brushed it off. The chair would recline on its own, then slowly return to its original position. I kept telling him what I was seeing, and he ignored it until one day we were sitting in the living room when the chair slowly started to recline. Then it suddenly slammed all the way back with force and began spinning. We got rid of it that same day, and that’s why I’ll never accept used furniture from people or shop at antique stores.

Me and my sister was in bed together, we saw a demon. A white smiling face. Everytime we put the blanket over our head n looked again it was closer. We woke our older sister up who was on the top bunk, she stepped down the bunk latter and stepped on it! It turned into a mist then formed back into a face, it then went out the room into the hallway with that same creepy smile just looking at us. A few days later she ends up crushing that same foot under a massive boulder.

I lived in a haunted house somewhere in rural UK. I kept telling my parents that something was wrong with the house—there were strange noises, things would suddenly fly out of the wardrobe, and other unexplained incidents. They refused to believe me until they discovered the bloodied bathroom 1 morning. We moved out the very next day and they never spoke about it.

When I was young, 2yrs old, we had moved into a new house and I would see “The Man”.
My mom said we came home one day and I went upstairs to play in my room and screamed at the top of my lungs and came running downstairs saying “the man” was upstairs.
So my parents went to investigate but no one was there. My mom had had enough at this point and she told the man that he needs to leave and find a new home because he is not welcomed here A few weeks later, my mom had us at this bus yard dropping off her school bus that she drove and we were heading to the car when I just started waving at something. (There was no one else there but us) My mom asked me what I was waving at and I replied “The Man” and she was like oh did he find a new home? & I replied “Yup” and she got us out there so fast.

My mom denies it but my dad and sister believe me because we have all experienced stuff in the house. When I was 18 I was home alone and decided to take a nap in my dad’s bed while I waited to pick my sister up from school.
When I was in that almost asleep stage I heard footsteps running towards me across the carpet. I panicked so hard I fell out of bed and BOLTED out of the house. I waited for an hour and a half at the school parking lot. Lmao.
My dad has also seen shadow people in his room and they would stand over him while he is sleeping. One jumped at him from the ledge that went around the room. My dad, sister and I all woke up Christmas 2023 in the middle of the night to something pulling our feet.

For context, my bathroom was right next to my brothers room, then my room, then my moms; all down one hallway. i was really young and sleeping in my room when i heard my name being called by a deep, old man like voice come from the bathroom. i thought i was dreaming so i kept my eyes closed. i knew there was no way it was my brother, as he was young too, and my dad was always on night shift (his voice does not sound like the one i heard). soon, i heard it again and opened my eyes. then on the third one, i fully sprinted to my moms room in tears, telling her i heard someone in the bathroom. i slept in my moms room for YEARS after that. never heard his voice again either. ive stopped telling this story to people because itd mostly unbelievable, but i have never heard the voice i heard that night.

When I was 14, I was standing at my mom's kitchen sink washing dishes while my parents were out at my brother's baseball game. It was dark outside and I could see my reflection in the window perfectly. I felt something brush my leg and looked up to see a tall, skinny, old man behind me in my reflection, when I turned there was nothing there and when I looked back to the window, the light above the sink shattered and he was gone.

I saw an old woman in my room when I young. I had a square lamp that had fish on it sitting on a plastic table in front of my window. I vividly remember rolling over ,cause for some reason I could not sleep, to see a hunched old woman standing over that light. She just stood there. I covered my head and went back to sleep, I think I only saw her a handful of times.

Growing up in a old house I experienced plenty of creepy stuff. Unknown footsteps in the staircase, doors open and closing on their own. Books falling off shelves and stuff rearranging and switching places on their own. But most creepy of all was whenever we all sat down for dinner there was the sound of marbles rolling across the upper floor without stopping, from one corner of the house to the next. Which should have been impossible since there was plenty of walls in the way.

My dad has VHS footage of this incident. I was a baby and my parents were getting home videos of me, when all of the sudden there’s a loud crash from the kitchen the next room over. All of the glass from the oven door had shattered, and the shards of glass were like vibrating/bouncing on the floor. The oven was off, nobody else in the house and no pets. Still can’t explain it.